The claim of theft is simple: the AI companies stole intellectual property without attribution. Knowing how AIs are trained and seeing the content they produce, I'm not sure how you can dispute that.
In the exact same way that it’s not theft if an artist-in-training goes to a museum to look at how other painters created their works.
In the exact same way that it’s not theft if an artist-in-training goes to a museum to look at how other painters created their works.